Abhijit Thosar

Abhijit Thosar, Head of Research and Design at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Abhijit Thosar is a seasoned product design leader with over two decades of experience building and leading cross-functional teams. He currently serves as the Head of Research and Design for Industry Products at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he leads a team focused on defining new transformational products for various industries.1

Professional Experience

• Head of Research and Design, Industry Products, Amazon Web Services (AWS) (May 2022 - Present)

  • Leading research, design, and prototyping team at AWS, Industry Products
  • Partnering with customer executives, business leaders, Outcome Driven Engineering, and Amazon teams to define new transformational products
  • Diving deep directly collaborating with strategic customers on emerging technology and building new industry-specific products1

• Adjunct Lecturer (Product Design), Stanford University School of Engineering (February 2021 - Present)

  • Coaching final year Mechanical Engineering undergrad students majoring in Product Design1

• Product Strategy and Design Leader, VMware (November 2019 - April 2022)

  • Drove the design vision for VMware's flagship product vSphere in collaboration with Engineers, Product Managers and Designers
  • Led the end-to-end design strategy to transform vSphere into a cloud-connected and modern-app ready SaaS platform1

Early Career

• Senior Experience Design Director, Human Factors International (April 2000 - July 2008)

  • Played a key role in establishing and growing HFI's operations in Asia and Europe
  • Built and mentored a 150+ member team of researchers, UX designers, art directors and rapid prototypers1

• Senior User Experience Consultant, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (July 1999 - March 2000)

  • Worked directly with C-suite stakeholders to redesign TCS's corporate website
  • Contributed to designing solutions for many winning RFPs leading to millions of dollars in new business1

Abhijit has a strong background in product design, user experience research, and design leadership across various industries such as financial services, telecom, healthcare, mobile, technology, ERP, automotive, and e-commerce.1